So cute to read with kids!

As a San Antonio native this was so much fun to read! Wonderful lesson on overcoming obstacles too.

“Martita, I remember you” begins with Corina, aka, Puffina, reading old letters from her close friend Marta. The novella then goes on to remember their time in Paris with another friend, Paola, all pursuing their dreams while trying to survive on little income and in harsh living conditions.

What I enjoyed most was the realism of how life turns out for each of them at the end, having dependable jobs and looking back and realizing their dreams wouldn’t have been as reliable as their current life.

Corina ends it by reminiscing about what happened in her life and why she had abruptly stopped writing back. How she fell in love, experienced the pain of miscarriage and then abandonment, describing it as “To have the person you love, alive, alongside you in time but choosing to NOT live alongside you. This is worse than death, I think.” She talks of her current marriage as secure, with someone you can rely on and decides that before she knew it she realized she finally had happiness.

My favorite quote from the book was spoken by Paola, talking of surviving on her own:

“I am cork. When others drown, I float.”